Sunday was quite an interesting day. I haven't been sleeping well as of late, but I caught up on all that missed sleep on Sunday...I woke up at 1:00 in the afternoon! As great as sleeping was, I had missed a couple of commitments that I was really looking forward to, so I felt really bad about it and it kinda put me in a bad mood. I moped around my apartment until 4:00 when I finally forced myself to go practice
piano before my RCIA lesson. Last week, my piano teacher gave me a book of Christmas music, so playing that definitely lifted my spirits.
After that, I headed to RCIA where we learned about Mary and what she means to the Catholic Church. This devotion to Mary has always fascinated me, so I was really excited to learn about Mary and her importance. We spent much of the class circling back to the fact that Mary was born without original sin because of God's plan for her, but that she also still had to use her free will to consent to God's plan.
The homily at mass and the RCIA lesson were in perfect harmony (probably because the deacon giving the homily was the same person teaching RCIA). Part of the second reading was from the same book and chapter that I wrote about last week: 1 Corinthians 3: 9. You are God's temple. We were created by God, for God. Mary recognized that and lived by it for her entire life. She is the example of purity that every human being should strive to replicate, simply for the fact that God created us in His image, which is perfect and pure.
Trust me, I recognize that it is not easy to keep a pure mind or actions in today's world, but the least we can do for God is to try and to ask for forgiveness when we fail.
You are God's temple ~1 Corinthians 3:9
Pax,
Kay
The homily at mass and the RCIA lesson were in perfect harmony (probably because the deacon giving the homily was the same person teaching RCIA). Part of the second reading was from the same book and chapter that I wrote about last week: 1 Corinthians 3: 9. You are God's temple. We were created by God, for God. Mary recognized that and lived by it for her entire life. She is the example of purity that every human being should strive to replicate, simply for the fact that God created us in His image, which is perfect and pure.
Trust me, I recognize that it is not easy to keep a pure mind or actions in today's world, but the least we can do for God is to try and to ask for forgiveness when we fail.
You are God's temple ~1 Corinthians 3:9
Pax,
Kay
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